STRUCK BY SOUND
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
8:00 pm Concert | 7:15 Pre-concert talk
Koerner Hall at the Royal Conservatory
In the TELUS Centre for
Performance and Learning
273 Bloor Street West
Tickets: 416.408.0208
or performance.rcmusic.ca
Featuring
Alex Pauk, conductor
Ivan Sokolov, pianist
Ryan Scott, percussion
Programme
| Maki Ishii | South – Fire – Summer for percussion solo and orchestra |
| Ana Sokolovic | Nine Proverbs |
| Unsuk Chin | Rocanã |
| Valentin Silvestrov | Postludium (Symphonic Poem for Piano and Orchestra) |
Ishii’s dynamic music sets the pace for this concert, combining of Western techniques with sounds of traditional Japanese music. Percussion virtuoso Ryan Scott performs one of the concertos that appears on his new CD “Maki Ishii Live”
Sokolovic’s Nine Proverbs, inspired by the painting of the same name by Brueghel the Younger (1564-1647), represents the painting’s depiction of the proverbs through nine contrasting atmospheres connected by modes, chords, rhythmic structures and colours.
Chin’s Rocanã (Sanskrit for “room of light”) is a kaleidoscopic tonal sculpture translating light phenomena - distortions, refractions, reflections, undulations - into sound.
Silvestrov’s Postludium begins with emotional outbursts, moves to lyrically pastoral meditation and dissolves in an “anti-cadenza”- a coda for the concert - lingering, suspended in time.
The evening features the launch of a new CD, “Maki Ishi Live”, a compilation of Ryan Scott’s concerto performances recorded live with Esprit Orchestra.
